Rather than play the "will this product work on Linux" game I bought an enclosure and made my own. I got an Orico enclosure and put a large HDD into it.
Most enclosures are OS agnostic (but check anyway) and you can put quite large drives in them.
Interesting! I will look more into this. Thanks for the tip
I have one and it works as a drive but all the seagate software doesn’t run in Linux.
Ok, perfect! I am not interested in the software :)
I dunno if the Hub software works but I do have a Seagate OneTouch portable 4TB drive and it worked without issues on Linux after reformatting like I would any other drive.
Ok, great, thanks :)
Maybe?
It depends on if the added functions are software-based, or if there's some hardware funkery going on.
Given it's a consumer product, I'd wager it's just a drive in an enclosure that does all their mirroring/backups/encryption stuff in software, but their marketing material doesn't seem to say one way or the other.
Google indicates older versions can be reformatted, so I'd bet that's still true.
If I'm wrong it's not my fault, etc.
Yeah, that's what I am hoping for. Thanks :)
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